Build log

Shipped

Built in public — everything that ships lands here, dated.

This log is append-only. For what’s coming next, see what’s coming.

July 2026

  • 31 JulFeature
    Markets research goes fully public

    Every call, report, journal entry, and the record — full reasoning, no membership gate. Pro keeps early access and depth.

  • 31 JulFeature
    Everything goes free

    Every remaining content gate comes off — premium articles, PDFs, live streams, watchlists. Pro becomes backing the work while the audience grows.

  • 31 JulFeature
    Explained auto-linking live in articles

    Article bodies now link the first mention of known terms into the library — the wire-up the log promised.

  • 31 JulFeature
    Off-box uptime monitor

    GitHub probes production health every 10 minutes from outside the box — a total outage now opens an issue instead of silence.

  • 31 JulTool
    Cost of the Job

    A monthly bill in pounds for the work you actually do, priced from live provider list rates — joined the shelf when the two /tools surfaces merged.

  • 30 JulTool
    Token Cost Calculator

    What an AI feature costs at scale, from token counts and provider prices.

  • 30 JulTool
    GPU Cost per Hour

    Depreciation plus power, resolved to the cost of one utilized GPU-hour.

  • 30 JulTool
    Build vs API

    The break-even between renting inference per token and owning the fleet.

  • 30 JulTool
    Local AI Hardware Sizer

    Model size, quantization, and context resolved to the VRAM you actually need.

  • 30 JulTool
    Fine-tune vs Prompt

    How fast a one-off tuning run pays back the prompt tokens it deletes.

  • 30 JulDataset
    Provider Rug-Event Log

    Dated, sourced log of AI-provider repricings, deprecations, and terms changes.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Explained — AI in plain English

    Permanent home for the plain-English WTF-is-X series, grouped by category.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Newsletter archive

    Every sent Sunday flagship issue on the record, grouped by month.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Press kit

    Boilerplate, brand assets, and a working press contact on one page.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Contact

    One published inbox with purpose routing and links to the legal surfaces.

  • 30 JulFeature
    Exchange returns — request to refund

    Buyers can request a return on an Exchange order; sellers review, take the item back, and refund.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Tools shelf

    The shelf where every published instrument accumulates, grouped by category.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Now — focus & public roadmap

    The always-current answer to what we are building, shipping next, and why.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Shipping log

    This page — everything that ships lands here, dated.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Which model should I use? (framework)

    The living decision framework; specific picks land after hands-on testing.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Explained deep-dives — inference, RAG

    The first two full plain-English explainers; every term graduates as episodes cover it.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Series index

    Every running franchise in one place, with episode counts.

  • 30 JulSurface
    How we test — eval methodology

    The testing rules made public: seat-test standing, disclosure, corrections.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Asked — reader Q&A

    Real reader questions answered in the open; the first questions land here.

  • 30 JulDoc
    AI-economics email course (drafts)

    Five lessons drafted, teaching with the calculators — sending awaits approval.

  • 30 JulFeature
    Embeddable tools

    Every calculator now ships an embed snippet — run it on any page, attribution built in.

  • 30 JulTool
    Stack Picker

    API, rented GPUs, or your own hardware — a guided walk through the constraints that decide.

  • 30 JulTool
    GPU Picker

    Which VRAM card class your local-AI ambition needs — classes, not products.

  • 30 JulDataset
    Token Price Snapshots

    25 observed, dated model API prices open the series — primary-source verified.

  • 30 JulSurface
    Datasets index

    Every citable series in one place, with the no-invention doctrine.

  • 30 JulFeature
    Explained auto-linker

    Articles can link known terms to the library — tested lib shipped; renderer wire-up pending.

  • 30 JulFeature
    Full-surface discoverability

    Tools, Explained, and Datasets now surface on the homepage shelf, in site search with their own filters, and in the sitemap.